Katharine Kerr's Daggerspell
Hooray, I found another giant fantasy series authored by a woman to get completely lost in! So this is an entertaining first volume, classic swords and sorcery stuff. It’s set in a Celtic-inspired world where souls reincarnate, and centers on a man who caused a tragedy four hundred years ago, and the gods are keeping him alive until he makes things right for the souls involved. The other POV character is a young girl who is the reincarnation of his lost love interest, but that never gets gross (he has to teach her magic for his mission to end and he often gives her “grandfatherly pats” on the head). I should note that the stuff that goes wrong in the past /does/ get gross (this was originally written in the 80s but incest was bad then too), so warning for that. Anyway, I don’t care about any of the romances, but the magic is cool, so let’s see how volume two goes. B+.
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